The artist is Martin Creed, who in 2001 was handed the Turner prize by Madonna for a piece that superficially involved the turning on and off of some lightbulbs, and who has produced and numbered hundreds of deeply felt, lighthearted, intensely vague, mildly specific conceptual works across paint, sculpture, video, installation and music.
It feels lighthearted in a movie that does a good job of taking itself too seriously.
This is usually a festive time of year, with the Day of the Dead holidays approaching, but it's impossible to feel lighthearted.
But this is psychedelia through a filter of 21st-century cool, played for fun: gleaming multicolored glass pillars, bright-red Murano glass chandeliers, checkerboard floors, multicolored rugs and alternating wallpaper patterns that ought to clash but feel lighthearted and urbane instead.
To feel lighthearted rather than dragged down by work?
We felt lighthearted, able to transcend the relatively gloomy confines of our Midtown office with the cheery hiss of bubbles in the air.
Back then I felt more lighthearted about the whole thing, telling myself, "I'm getting a chance to do some community education.
In 1961 Nixon dubbed Natalie Wood's Latino character Maria, singing tunes such as the lighthearted "I Feel Pretty" and the romantic "Somewhere" in the ground-breaking West Side Story.
In a lighthearted way, I feel, "Life goes on".
"Although he tries to remain lighthearted, deep down in his eyes, I feel his hidden pain," writes the 32-year-old author, Sunisa Lertpakawat.
